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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (16787)	9/17/2001 12:27:26 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 59480

Hi Raymond Clutts; The problem that the moderate nations face is that if weapons of mass destruction end up in the hands of radical fundamental terrorists, those terrorists are more likely to use them against the moderate governments than against the US. And in fact, I don't have the numbers, but I'd be willing to bet that there's several moderate regimes that have already suffered far more deaths due to bombs than were inflicted on us at the WTC. And they have smaller populations to spread the grieving around. That's the case for the moderate regimes. And the fanatical regimes? The first lesson is that we must eliminate them. We can't let obscure corners of the world fester. The second lesson is that the moderate regimes must assist in the elimination of the fanatical regimes as well. If they don't, the actions of the United States will tend to turn the moderate nations into battlefields. In the United States, we are all scared of creating a final Armageddon, where the Christians and the Moslesm fight it out in the Holy land. This thought is in the back of everybody's minds. What we don't immediately realize is that the same thought is going on in the backs of everybody's mind in the Middle East. And the battle field for what would likely be the bloodiest war in history would be the their homes. Imagine the horror of that. Pakistan signed up because their only realistic alternative was to be declared a supporter of terrorism, and watch while the United States landed tanks in India and rolled over 140 million Pakistanis to the Afghan border. Even if the United States simply flew over Pakistan the Taliban would have demanded that Pakistan uselessly try to stop us. And that would mean the destruction of Pakistan's airforce, and the loss of the Kashmir to India, etc. These countries aren't building up conventional armies to protect themselves from the US. They saw what happened to Iraq. Their militaries are there to protect themselves from their neighbors, and sometimes, possible rebellions. What has scared us is our lack of understanding how fragmented the "Moslem" nations are. -- Carl